Matthew BuddContact Melinkedin.com/in/matthew-buddmbudd@robots.ox.ac.uk+44 (0) 7825 795410London // OxfordCurriculum VitaeView online"Graphic Design is my Passion"About meWith thanks to github.com/ariutta/svg-pan-zoom and numerous other open-source tools,including the well-known WYSIWYG web design tool, KiCAD [www.kicad-pcb.org].github.com/matbuddInteresting LinksThey all said I was crazy! A whole website in anSVG image? They all said it couldn't be done!Well, look who's laughing now!PublicationsI am a PhD student in the Oxford Robotics Institute. As a member of the Goal-Oriented Long-Lived Systems (GOALS) lab, I am particularly interested in the real-world deployment of robotic systems that act under uncertainty with real-world resource constraints. Areas of interest within robotics include:• Model-based sequential decision making• Meta-reasoning for compute constraints and time-varying environments• Bayesian / probabilistic reinforcement learning• Markov decision process safe exploration• Formal methodsSite guide: on desktop, click/drag to pan and mousewheel to zoom. On touch, pinch and drag away. Use the navigation bar at the top to view my CV, see the list of interesting links, or contact me in a number of ways (maybe you have a theory on what this schematic does?) Use "Reset View" on the navigation bar if you get lost. I started on a PhD at the Oxford Robotics Institute in 2020. Since then I've worked with robots that have arms, legs, wheels, and propellors. I was previously the manipulation team leader of Team ORIon, competing in RoboCup in 2019 (Sydney) and 2022 (Thailand, where I was also acting team leader). Between 2016 and 2020 I undertook an MEng in Oxford's Engineering Department, specialising in information engineering, microelectronics, control theory, and mathematical methods. I received an IET Diamond Jubilee engineering scholarship for the duration of my undergraduate degree. In this time I also worked in an embedded software engineering role at Cambridge Consultants, as part of their Technology Scholar programme. I enjoy technical leadership and running my own electronic engineering mini-projects. These include leading a team of ~15 undergraduates to design, build and program a "Mars rover" robot, and launching a high-altitude balloon scientific payload to 20km+ altitude. Outside of work, I enjoy swimming and indoor bouldering. 20201.Budd, M., Lacerda, B., Duckworth, P., West, A., Lennox, B., & Hawes, N. (2020, October). Markov Decision Processes with Unknown State Feature Values for Safe Exploration using Gaussian Processes. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).20221.Budd, M., Duckworth, P., Hawes, N., & Lacerda, B. (2022, December). Bayesian reinforcement learning for single-episode missions in partially unknown environments. 6th Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL).20211.Budd, M., Duckworth, P., Hawes, N., & Lacerda, B. (2021, August). Mission Planning in Unknown Environments as Bayesian Reinforcement Learning. IJCAI’21 Workshop on Robust and Reliable Autonomy in the Wild (R2AW).2.Budd, M., Salavasidis, G., Kamarudzaman, I., Harris, C. A., Phillips, A. B., Hawes, N., Duckworth, P., & Lacerda, B. (2022, October). Probabilistic Planning for AUV Data Harvesting from Smart Underwater Sensor Networks. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).RoboCup Bangkok 2022Oxford Robotics Institute coverageRoboCup Sydney, 2019Oxford Robotics Institute news itemPembroke College news itemMEng Master's Project, 2020ThesisMars Rover Competition, 2018-19Engineering department news itemCritical Design Review documentCompetition siteCERN Large Hadron Colliderinstrumentation group designproject, 2018-19Final presentation(presented to Beam InstrumentationGroup at CERN in Geneva)Final technical reportRoboSerf project at CambridgeConsultants, 2015News item